The Continuity Basketball Offense

The game of basketball is full of great fundamental skills of which must be mastered to achieve a winning tradition. Basketball coaches around the nation continually search for fundamental offenses which can be used to safe guard their programs from the trails and balances needed to tackle league championships. The world of the continuity offenses is full of opportunity.

Coach Mac's Continuity Offenses from Oregon Small School programs as featured on Amazon is an awesome coaching resource. Within the cover of the book coaches will discover an awesome flex series offense, 5 out motion series, and the famous shuffle for success offense.

Why use the continuity offense you ask? The continuity offense allows coaches to put players in position to take advantage of their strengths while masking a teams weakness. The world of high school basketball is full of stakes, specifically the balancing of skill with challenging goals. A continuity offense is easy to teach, adaptable to most defensive sets, and gives the coach control of who is going to take the the game winning shots. A second feature of the continuity offense is it appearance of structure. Some coaches have moved away from the basic motion series because the structure provided with the continuity sets give systems support.

The awesome balance of fundamental skill with fundamental offenses harbors a winning legacy. Many coaches turn to the continuity offense to compliment their strong emphasis of the basics in their push to reach every teams potential. Tackling the flex offense or others of its kind can be rewarding bringing with it the structure a team needs at the high school level.

For more on the continuity offense and Coach Mac's Continuity Offenses from Oregon Small School Programs visit Coach McKinnis at http://www.coachmac-basketball.com

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Playing For Pizza Written by John Grisham

Rick Dockery was an NFL quarterback, or so it said in newspapers that dared mention his name! Rick had attempted passes while under contract, usually a short contract, for several NFL teams until he was finally relegated to third-string and the last possible quarterback any team wanted to use. He loved the game but his fame was from his interceptions, not the completions, which hurt many teams. The book opens with Rick in a hospital bed after being knocked senseless in his last game. His agent, Arnie, was awaiting his awareness to being alive and when Rick did finally come to, Arnie bid him a fast goodbye, telling Rick to get some basketball Arnie was tired of teams calling him telling him not to peddle Rick to them. They all knew him too well.

After regaining some of his wellness, Rick contacted Arnie requesting a chance at playing for another basketball Poor Arnie. Rick kept bothering Arnie as he got more impatient regarding getting back to work and making some money. No NFL team would touch Rick. At last Arnie came up with a position for Rick in Parma, Italy playing for their NFL Italy League. Parma, Italy? Where they make Parmesan Cheese? When told of the tiny salary he would earn especially compared to the actual NFL, Rick balked but Arnie said that was all he could get for Rick. Risk had visions of being a star in this Italian league, making out with cheerleaders, and living a life of luxury that, in his mind, he had earned.

Rick's arrival in Parma was a real culture shock. No big hotels to live in, no cheerleaders, no fancy restaurants, in fact, no luxury at all and, worst of all, only three players on the entire team were paid while the others played for the fun and thrill of the game. While Rick was making $2,000.00 a month plus room and board, this was not what he envisioned. He found a few women that he "worked" on and they came and went in his Italian life. The practices were brutal for an NFL quarterback. Other team positions had to work very hard in the NFL but not the quarterbacks. They could take it easy. Sure they could-but not in NFL Italy.

He got to know the players that were on the Parma Panthers who worked in all types of jobs regularly. Come practice and game day, these players were generally 100% hard guts for Parma through pain and injuries and all types of playing surfaces and field sizes that differed throughout the league. The Panthers started their season well but went downhill when they played against the teams they knew they could beat easily. Bergamo had been the Italian Super Bowl champs for so many years that no one remembered when they hadn't won it. Of course the Panthers wanted in the worst way to win that Super Bowl and beat that great Bergamo team.

Plying for Pizza is a great variation of Grisham's normal books. He can take almost any subject and, with his knowledge and smarts, can turn it into a great story containing humor, mystery, love, and almost any other subject into a great read. I look forward to his next serious book but this one very much entertained me; most of John Grisham's fans should enjoy it too.

Reader review by Cy Hilterman.
Reviewer of many types of books.

Origin of Basketball - Part 1

Basketball is a sport with a history that is very different from many modern sports. While many of the present day team sports evolved from variations of past sports, basketball is unique, having been invented by Dr. James Naismith, a physician and minister working for the college for YMCA professionals (later called Springfield College, in Massachusetts). Seeking a rigorous game that could be played indoors during the New England winter to occupy restless young men, Naismith sat down in December of 1891 and developed the first set of rules for the game.

Legend has it that Naismith nailed a peach basket ten foot high on an elevated track. The first game was played on January 20, 1982, in the YMCA gymnasium, with nine players and a court half the size of a present day NBA court. A student suggested calling the game basketball, which seemed to be popular and stuck.

The original game was played with a basketball ball, and the first designated basketballs were brown. However, due to their lack of visibility to both players and crowds of fans, Tony Hinkle developed the modern day orange basketball in the late 1950s nnd it is still used today. The college and pro basketballs are different from one another.

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